138 Auguft 1749. 



places covered with this rein-deer mols. To 

 that the ground looks as white as fnow. 



Auguft the loth. This day I dined with 

 the Jefuits. A few days before, I paid 

 my vifit to them -, and the next day their 

 prefident, and another father Jefuit, called 

 on me, to invite me to dine with them to- 

 day. I attended divine fervice in their 

 church, which is a part of their houfe. It 

 is very fine within, though it has no feats; 

 for every one is obliged to kneel down du- 

 ring the fervice. Above the church is a 

 fmali fleeple, with a clock. The building 

 the Jefuits live in is magnificently built, 

 and looks exceeding fine, both without and 

 within ; which gives it a fimilarity to a 

 fine palace. It confifts of llione, is three 

 fiiories high, exclufive of the garret, co- 

 vered with dates, and built in a fquare form, 

 like the new palace at Stockholmy includ- 

 ing a large court. Its fize is fuch, that 

 three hundred families would find room 

 enough in it ; though at prefent there were 

 not above twenty Jefuits in it. Some- 

 times there is a much greater number of 

 them, efpecially when thofe return, who 

 have been fent as miffionaries into the 

 country. There is a long walk along all 

 the fides of the fquare, in every ftory, on 

 both fides of which are either cells, halls, 



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